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Then, having smacked his lips with gusto as if anticipating a tasty meal, he predicted, "Castro will have to gravitate to us like an iron filing to a magnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Cambridge schools have been recognized nationwide as innovators in open schools, magnet schools, and alternative programs...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Peterkin Assumes Helm of City Schools | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

...such program currently embroiled in controversy, however, is the city's computer magnet school, the so-called "school of the future," which opened last year without computer hardware...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Peterkin Assumes Helm of City Schools | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

...from a losing effort?if it loses? and thus retain his political integrity and be well positioned to chase the presidential nomination in 1988. In any case, many Mondale advisers are cool to the idea of having Hart on the ticket. They see him merely as an anti-Mondale magnet with little constituency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not a Woman? | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Even before last week there were some signs that the Los Angeles Games were not proving to be quite the magnet that some boosters had predicted. Many airlines had already abandoned their hopes of charging full fares on all flights to and from Los Angeles during the Olympics (summer discounts are normally available), and automobile-rental agencies had stopped requiring full payment in advance. Accordingly, in the best tradition of Yankee buoyancy, there were those who predicted that the boycott would strengthen rather than weaken the appeal of the Games. Ventured Walter Hill, president of a firm that makes official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Auditing the Capitalist Games | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

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